Re:Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
by zzulanas on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @11:23AM
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now I can finally live my dream of saying "it's a unix system I know this" in front of my family and non-technical friends while pulling this thing up and inspecting my bloated tmux processes running 20 claude code instances
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Re:Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
by bch on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @01:54PM
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"Its the Gibson - it's finding us too fast!"
Re:Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
by a_kawashiro on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:00PM
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I haven't seen Hackers yet. Thanks for the reference!
Re:Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
by bch on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:40PM
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Excellent! Strap on your rollerblades and get ready for a good time!
Re:Show HN: Procinsh – A 3D Linux process inspector
by hnlmorg on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:12PM
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You could do that before, because that scene was actually a file manager written for UNIX called fsn. But there have been ports / reimplementations of it since such as fsv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer
It’s probably the only time in cinema history that a “hacker” visual effect was actually UNIX.